Recent technological improvements have extended the application range of dielectric permittivity biomass measurements to on-line monitoring of physiological changes during bacterial fermentations. In an industrial fermentation of Bacillus thuringiensis, it is important to verify the intactness of bacterial plasmid content in all steps of culture. Changes in certain plasmid resident properties o...

We present telemetric sensing of surface strains on different industrial materials using split-ring-resonator based metamaterials. For wireless strain sensing, we utilize metamaterial array architectures for high sensitivity and low nonlinearity-errors in strain sensing. In this work, telemetric strain measurements in three test materials of cast polyamide, derlin and polyamide are performed by...

Background The yeast strain CAT-1 isolated from a Brazilian fuelethanol plant (Babrzadeh et al. 2009) is one of the most common strain used nowadays due to its very efficient fermentation capacity, especially at high sugar concentrations and under the stressful industrial conditions. Since the transcription factor genes MSN4, MSN2, YAP1 and HSF1 of tolerant yeast strains are highly expressed un...

The flocculation gene FLO1 was transferred into the robust industrial strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae PE-2 by the lithium acetate method. The recombinant strain showed a fermentation performance similar to that of the parental strain. In 10 repeat-batch cultivations in VHG medium with 345 g glucose/L and cell recycling by flocculation-sedimentation, an average final ethanol concentration of 142...

A gene fusion between the Saccharomyces cerevisiae actin gene promoter and the cDNA of the Fusarium solani f. sp. pisi pelA gene has been constructed. This expression cassette has been introduced into the industrial wine yeast strain T73. The resulting recombinant strain is able to secrete active PELA enzyme into the culture medium. In preliminary microvinification experiments the wine produced...

Introduction Concepts of Industrial Microbiology Microbial Products of Industrial Use Energy Generating Pathways: Fermentations and Respiration Regulation of Metabolic Pathways Screening of Microbes Culture Preservation Strain Development Strategy Microbial Growth and its Kinetics Fermentor & Fermentation Process Fermentation Media Inoculum Development Downstream Processing Commercial Productio...

Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are diverse polyesters synthesized by a variety of bacteria as intracellular carbon and energy storage compounds. As bio-renewable and biodegradable materials with diverse properties, PHA have drawn industrial attentions for their potential applications in many fields. This review focuses on recent strain developments for PHA production via cofactor engineering and m...

It is commonly held that our industrial pattern of life presents each one who works in industry with inordinate emotional strain. Gastric ulcers are the supposed psychosomatic reward of highpressure executive work. Boredom, neurosis and delinquency are assumed to be the fruits of what to the onlooker may seem repetitious and monotonous mass-production work. Nervous disorders are presumed to be ...